E. I. Carlyle

Edward Irving Carlyle (15 September 1871 – 9 February 1952) was a British author and historian.

He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, where he was a Casberd scholar. He graduated in 1894 and was appointed assistant editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. He relinquished this role after being elected a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford in 1901. He then served at Lincoln College, Oxford from 1907 until he retired in 1944.[1]

In 1904 he published a sympathetic biography of William Cobbett and he also contributed histories of British South Africa, East Africa and West Africa to Albert Pollard's 1909 work The British Empire.[1]

He married Susan Mary Catherine in 1913, with who he had a son and two daughters.[1]

Works

  • William Cobbett: A Study of His Life as Shown in His Writings (1904).

Notes

  1. ‘Mr. E. I. Carlyle’, The Times (13 February 1952), p. 8.
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